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ɪʀᴏɴᴡᴏᴏᴅ ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ ᴇsʜᴀɪ ([personal profile] ironwood) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_ooc2013-02-11 04:54 pm
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A TEAL DEER APPROACHES. YOU CAN (PET IT) OR (STAB IT) OR (RUN AWAY). CHOOSE WISELY.





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[personal profile] inthishouse 2013-02-12 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
First off, he has a whole lot of respect for Reid. Respect for the whole team, in fact. Will grew up with cops who were very down-to-earth people, very normal, and it took a fair amount of reaching and thinking out of the box on his part to invite the team in. And they had an approach to investigation that he hadn't had much experience with before. Which isn't to say that Will believes their approach is any better or worse than how he works, just that they have a way of looking at things that can jostle leads loose, that is a more formal sort of analysis. He has a whole lot of respect for their intellects, and for the difficulty of their job.

And Reid takes this a step further. It isn't that he understands Reid any less than the others; he has a fair bit of insight into every member of the team, if only because he understands the pure commitment that they need to do a job as difficult as theirs. It's just that Reid is a step towards the extreme of the educated spectrum, and that kind of ability is far, far beyond Will's reach. And it's interesting, and what Reid does with his intellect is great, and so Will likes him.

On top of that, there's something about Reid that's still a little weirdly innocent, even when he's confronted as much of the darkness as the team has. He's also a good friend of JJ's. These are things that make him more human and more in Will's reach, and contributed to the decision of having Reid as Henry's godfather. (Because Will was completely behind that decision.) He also feels that Reid is a fairly lonely person, and doesn't have too many people, and that makes him more willing to reach out and connect.

Additionally -- this is totally headcanon -- Reid is a little like the guy who was the cause of the worst fight Will ever had with a friend of his. Said friend, in high school, was trying to get in with a group of kids who were kind of mean and devil-may-care, and they engaged in some bullying. Will's friend was a reluctant participant, but was a participant, and Will got really angry at him. After Will's friend broke another student's pair of glasses, Will broke his nose, and ended up suspended from school for a week and in serious trouble with his Daddy. It was during the process of Will kind of trying to figure out who he was going to be, and this was a big turning point for him, because it convinced him that violence wasn't the way to solve violent problems. That use of force can prevent things, but it doesn't make things right. So Reid echoes back to the formative times of Will's life, and has this kind of subconscious effect of reminding Will who he decided to be, way back when.

IS THAT ENOUGH TL;DR? It's your turn.